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Monday, 9 May 2016

9th May

We seem to have moved in a single weekend from late winter
to the torpor of high summer! A longish walk today saw no sign of migrants on the
move but plenty more territorial birds with singing Blackcaps particularly numerous.

My youngest son had stuck a stick into the mud near the ‘wader’
pool the other evening. It has very quickly been taken over as a Yellow Wagtail
song post…

I inadvertently flushed a total of six hares on the walk
although this one stayed long enough to allow one quick photo…

This might be the last walk along this route for a while as both the decidedly dodgy wooden bridge...

and metal one are being repaired/replaced.

In the Magic Garden the Canada’s have hatched five goslings…

The year’s first Brimstone butterfly was also in the garden along
with this Toad…

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" Men that undertake only one district are much more likely to advance natural knowledge than those that grasp at more than they can possibly be acquainted with ; every kingdom, every province, should have its own monographer."Gilbert White — The Natural History of Selborne.This blog covers the birds and other wildlife in the parish of Ainderby Steeple, North Yorkshire.